<p>Well, I’ve just recieved the Outreach Scholarship of 2000/year, and if their purpose was to draw in OOS students, it defintely worked. I’m just about to accept their admissions offer, however I have a couple more questions… </p>
<p>Can an out-of-state student live off campus with a parent? After searching, I haven’t found a definitive answer (especially for an out-of-state student and parent). </p>
<p>Is a meal plan still required if I’m not living in the dorms?</p>
<p>And finally, does that mean that is the only scholarship awarded to me, being the only award on the financial aid tab at my calpoly portal?</p>
<p>Well I don’t know why you’d want to live with your parent at college unless you had a good reason to…but yes, you can live off campus, and no, you do not need a meal plan if you live off campus</p>
<p>Thanks for the quick reply! Haha and yeah… I know, it’s not the ideal situation. However, I don’t have the money to live in dorms. My dad and I will be moving in with my grandparents until he can find a job and afford an apartment and until I find a job and can afford to stay in the dorms hopefully during my sophomore year.</p>
<p>Do you, or anybody reading, know anyone who has stayed off campus freshman year and then lived in the dorms for their sophomore year?</p>
<p>My son lived off campus during freshman year and still does because of medical problems. Thus I can confirm that you can live off campus as a freshman, and that my son did not have to sign up for a meal plan. I cannot answer whether you can go to the dorms after a year of living off campus, but I do not see why not. I would not feel bad about living with a parent. My son has met plenty of students who need to live at home in order to afford Cal Poly. Good luck.</p>
<p>My spent my freshmen year in dorms, and after that I never wanted to live on campus again. I had a on campus job, dorm friends, blah blah. It definitely wasn’t for me. So I decided to be a commuter student. Works pretty well for me since I have a tons of friends still that I knew from high school.</p>
<p>You can definitely live on campus your sophomore year even if you didn’t your freshman year. Also, you should look into being a CA/RA your sophomore year. Even if you’re living off campus, you can still apply to be one, and if you get hired, you get free housing and either a free meal plan or plus dollars. So if money’s tight and it sounds like a position you’d be interested in , I’d suggest it.</p>